{"id":1011,"date":"2013-04-16T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:09:11","slug":"the-cattle-chronicles-new-born-calves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"The Cattle Chronicles:  New born Calves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/the-cattle-chronicles-new-born-calves\/calf-just-born-2-84dpi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-389\" alt=\"Calf - just born 2 84dpi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/Calf-just-born-2-84dpi--150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Monday, April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Springtime in the Rockies.\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 We&#8217;re in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the season, nine inches and counting.\u00a0 We delayed our calving season this year on the theory that mamas calving in April and May (as opposed to our past practice of February-March) would fare better on the spring flush of grass and save us the expense of feeding hay in corrals.\u00a0 Not to mention being a lot warmer.\u00a0 Looks like Mother Nature has up and changed her season too.\u00a0 Guess she thought we&#8217;d miss taking care of newborns in the freezing snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 15. Springtime in the Rockies.\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 We&#8217;re in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the season, nine inches and counting.\u00a0 We delayed our calving season this year on the theory that mamas calving in April and May (as opposed to our past practice of February-March) would fare better on the spring flush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","category-local","category-ranch-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}